I have always enjoyed writing. When I was younger, I'd write song lyrics and go with my mom to the studio. I wrote throughout school and got second place in a contest in high school. I started writing seriously when the pandemic hit and I got very depressed and needed an outlet.
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William Finger grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from Duke University in 1969, he went to India in the Peace Corps. In midlife, he completed a Masters in Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His first memoir, The Crane Dance: Taking Flight in Midlife (2016), was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He has been a freelance writer, an editor of a public policy quarterly, a consultant at the N.C. Legislature, and for the last twenty-four years before retiring in 2013, a writer and communications manager at an international public health organization.
British writer Elisabeth Conway has lived and worked in Southeast Asia for many years in an area that she now considers to be her spiritual home and from which she takes her inspiration. Elisabeth has written a historical trilogy set in and around Singapore between 1822 and 1831. She now lives in the UK but continues to visit Singapore/Malaysia whenever she can.
John “FEELSOUL” Futrell is an artist and musician known for blending evocative storytelling with innovative soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from life’s raw emotions and experiences, their work transcends genres, creating a unique auditory and emotional journey for listeners. With a passion for authenticity and creativity, FEELSOUL continues to captivate audiences worldwide through their art and music.
Allison Batty-Capps is a licensed marriage and family therapist, yoga therapist, Reiki Master, intuitive spiritual guide and channeler. She has lived experience learning to live with a complex mental health diagnosis that began after a profound mystical experience she had connecting to the divine within. She brings her trauma-informed training, lived experience, and education to bear on her spiritual teachings. Her unique insight into how divinity expresses itself in each of us comes not only from her education and training, but from her lived experience learning to use the tools in this book to manage her own mental health diagnosis and personal mystical experiences.
I'm a creative millennial and NG Veteran with a BA in Art (double major in creative writing and graphic design) who loves to sing, cosplay, read a variety of mediums, and swim like the mermaid I wish to wake up as one day. When I'm not writing song lyrics for my band, doing graphic design projects, or working on a book, I'm probably geeking out with my friends over anime (or Baldur's Gate 3).
Sarah Karasek lives in rural Pennsylvania with two long-haired cats and one long-haired human. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing from Rosemont College and is currently a freelance writer and copyeditor. She's also an assistant editor at Space Squid Magazine. Weird Waypoints: A Speculative Travel Guide to the Between is an anthology she edited, and it's full of really stellar stories by really rad authors.
I am an actor and extra, and have appeared a in number of movies, TV series, music videos, and commercials, one advert I was featured with Idris Elba for Booking.com, which was seen worldwide during the World Series final in America. I am very pleased to say that my credits have been seen across the world on the telly and in cinemas.
Sam feels her feelings like it's her job…because it is. Crying often as a means to process and release, she strives to uncover all her deepest wounds and salve them with aloe. You can find Sam at her favorite coffee shop (literally named "Poets") sipping an iced vanilla chai and eating something delicious on a croissant while she scribbles poems into one of her many half-filled notebooks, living her best main-character life.
I’m J.D. Harbor, an author who loves crafting heartfelt romance stories filled with self-discovery, second chances, and unforgettable journeys. My debut series, RomantiSea Serenades, brings readers aboard luxurious cruise ships, where love and adventure meet on the open ocean. When I’m not writing, I’m exploring the world, soaking up inspiration, or dreaming about my next story.
